So the police station and many of the other locations are fiction. Rankin wasn’t really writing about Edinburgh at this early stage, he was just not writing about his home town, where his first book was set (the non-Rebus starring The Flood).
I wasn’t inside Rebus’s head he was just a cipher to get me through the story.” We’ll go into the details of this a lot more in the Background section below…Ģ) This is a fictional Edinburgh. In The Guardian in 2012 he wrote: “it reads like it was written when I was a postgraduate literature student.
TV adaptation: The last episode of the Ken Stott’s last season was entitled Knots and Crosses but had absolutely nothing to do with this story, apart from the name, and some of the knot and cross-based clues.įour things to notice about Knots and Crosses:ġ) Not surprisingly even Ian Rankin says this is his least favourite Rebus book. Later reprints went for the rather irrelevant Celtic cross gravestone (which we concede has a sort of know and cross motif), or some typical Edinburgh steps, or minimalist used matchstick heads. One line summary: We get to meet John Rebus for the first time, and he’s on the trail of a weirdly-motivated serial killer.Ĭover: The original cover was a sort of noughts and crosses, with matches for the crosses and knots for the noughts. This is an extract from my book Dirty Work: Rebus and Rankin book-by-book
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